Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes reporters could not even pass the time drinking, thanks to Hearst's smart-aleck Columnist George Dixon. He had printed a giggly prediction that the Truman train would ignore local liquor laws. After that, for several dreadful days, the bar had been locked up in dry states...
...sortie last week into political no-man's land. Appearing in Baltimore, in the border state of Maryland, he was met by a college student dressed in the full regalia of a Confederate brigadier and a mildly interested audience. Standing just over on his side of the Mason-Dixon line, the governor of South Carolina sounded his defiance...
...Know the Score." Negro Publisher Davis Lee of the Newark weekly Telegram (circ. 110,000) found a Negro's life below the Mason-Dixon line more tolerable than north of it. In an editorial he wrote: "When I am in Virginia or North Carolina I don't wonder if I will be served if I walk into a white restaurant. I know the score. However, I have walked into several right here in New Jersey . . . and have been refused service . . . New Jersey today boasts of more civil rights legislation than any other state in the union...
Last week the papers prepared to break with their past. In mid-September, they will move to an ultramodern new building (ten blocks below the Mason-Dixon line). In the same week Editor Wallace will retire. In a sense, both departures are overdue. The new plant, budgeted to cost $3,000,000, has already eaten up $7,000,000 and will open 18 months late. And at 73, "Uncle Tom" Wallace is eight years past the paper's retirement...
Author Van Gelder calls Important People "a kind of Currier & Ives of the current scene" and his publishers promise "a savage and deeply probing novel of the rich and frightening influential society of our time." He tells the story of Hero Dixon West, a rich kid but nice, who comes back from combat in the Pacific anxious to use his wealth constructively but not sure how to go about it. Grandfather West, crusty and conservative owner of a powerful chain of magazines, looks at first to Dixon like a threat to the good life, and finally seems like...